12 | 1 | 60 | 250 | 16 | 1856 | 1 a day | 6,500
13 | 7 | 850 | 5,951 | 320 | 1852 | 1 a month | 106,250
14 | 5 | 2,000 | 8,000 | 575 | 1856 | 1 a month | 205,000
15 | 7 | 3,290 | 13,410 | 671 | 1857 | 1 a month | 925,000
|====|========|========|=======| | |=============
Total, 121 | 42,254 |140,139 | 8,137 | | |$5,114,700[I]
-----------+--------+--------+-------+------+-----------+-------------

[I] There are some lines not here noticed, which swell the sum to
$5,333,985.--T. R.

PAPER C.

PROJET OF FRANCO-AMERICAN NAVIGATION.

Mr. Wm. Iselin, of Havre, kindly furnished me the following:

"The French Government has offered the following contracts:

"Havre to New-York, 26 voyages a year, fr.3,100,000, or $620,000.

"Bordeaux to Rio Janeiro, touching at Lisbon, Goree, Bahia, or
Pernambuco, and a branch line from Rio Janeiro to Montevideo and
Buenos Ayres, 24 voyages a year, fr.4,700,000, or $940,000. The
Government now requires 13 departures from Bordeaux and 13 from
Marseilles at the same price.

"Nantes to St. Thomas, thence to Guadalupe, and thence to
Martinique, with the following branch lines:

"No. 1. St. Thomas to St. Martha or Carthagena, and thence to
Aspinwall.

"No. 2. St. Thomas to Porto Rico, thence to Havana, Vera Cruz, and
Tampico.

"No. 3. From Martinique to Cayenne.

"The subvention offered is fr.6,200,000, or $1,400,000.

"The total amount of subvention offered for the 3 lines is
therefore 14 millions of francs per annum, or $2,800,000.

"The Messageries Imperiales have given a tender for the Brazil
lines.

"William Iselin of Havre, in connection with Mr. Calley St. Paul,
for the Havre and New-York line; the necessary capital of
$3,200,000 is subscribed; their intention is to have a weekly
departure from Havre to New-York, by making the fortnightly
departures of the French boats alternate with American Havre and
Bremen boats.

"For the line from Nantes to the West-Indies the Company Gautier
is said to have given a tender; but it is doubtful if they can
make up their capital."

The _Messageries Imperiales_ is one of the largest and strongest
companies in all Europe. They have the following different lines: the
Italian, the Constantinople direct,